The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-11-11

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dren meet,
And all the arches ring withlaughter sweet
Hero shall the steed, his patient life who
In toll that never ends,
Hot from his thirsty tramp Ger NIL ana
Plunge his red nostrils, while the torturinG
Drops in loose loops beside his floating
Nor the poor brute that shares his mas,
ter's lot
Finds his small needs forgot
| Truest OF humble, long-snduring friends
Whose presence cheers, whose guardian care
defendsl
Here lark and thrush and nightingaleshaII
And skimming swallows dip.
And strange, shy wanderers fold their JUS
trOus plumes, .
Fragrant from bowers that lent their sweet
Where P@stum's rose or Persia's lilac
blooms;
Here from his cloud the eagle stoops to
drink
At the full basins brink,
And whet his beak against its rounded lip,
His glossy feathers glistening as they drip
Here shall the dreaming poet linger long,
Far from his listening throng-
Nor Lutte nor Iyro his trembling hand shall
bring;
Here no frail Muse shall imp her crippled
wing,
No ialterlng minstrel strain his throat to
These hallowed echoes who shall dare to
claim
Whose t~uneless voice would shame,
Whose j~angling chords with Earring notes
would wrong .
The nymphs that heard the Swan OF
Avon's song?
What visions greet the pilgrims raptured
eyes!
What ghosts made real rise!
The dead return, they breathe, they live
again,
Joined by the host OF Fancy's airy train,
Fresh from the spring OF Shakspeare's
q]uickening brain!
The stream that slakes the souls diviner
thirst
Here found the sunbeams first;
Rich with his fame, not less shall memory
prize
The gracious gift that humber wants sup
lies.
Der the wide waters reached the hand
that gave,
Toa all this bounteous wave,
With health and strength and Joyous
beauty f~raught;
Blest be the generous pledge OF friendship
brought
From the far home OF brothers love, un-
bought!
Long may fair avon's fountains flow, en-
rolled
With stored shrines o fold,
Castalia's spring, Egeria's dewy cave,
And Horeb's rock the God of Isarel clave!
Land OF our fathers, ocean makes us two,
But heart to heart is true!
Proud Isl your towering daughter in the
West.
Yet in her burning life blood reign contest
Her mothers pulses beating in her breast.
This holy tount, whose rills from heaven
descend,
Its gracious drops shall lend
Both ioreheadS bathed in that baptismal
dew,
And love make one the old home and the
newt
Mr.. IRVING SPEAKS.
Mr.. Irving read the poem with
splendid effect, amid recurring plaud-
and then paid a warn tribute to
Mr.. Childs. Mr.. Irving continued:
On this spot of all others Americans
,ease to be aliens, for here they claim our
with the great actor OF English
speech. The simplest records Of Strait
ord show that this is the mecca OF Ameri
pilgrims, and that the place which
ave birth to ShaksUeare is regarded as
.he fountain OF the A.ghriest and moat en-
Tearing inspiration OF our mother tongue.
{ il above all thing s 9 poet Of tbs pso-
Die that SHAKESPEARE Is supreme. He wrote
. days when literature madeno appeal to
he multitude. Books were for d limited
lass, but the theater was open to all.
How many E~nglishmen to whom reading
Eas a labor, or an im~possibility, must
drawn from the stage which
'~hakspeare enriched some Of the
most priceless Jewels OF the human
IL is not only because
ihakspeare 10 the delight OF scholars, or
ecause he has infinite charms for the
most refined taste that he Yields the I'M
staff OF Prospero over the imagina-
ion Of mankind. IL is because his spell
8 woven from truth, simplicity and ma
ure herself. The learned and the simple,
ne genbie ana humble, all may drink from
he iuexhaustible wisdom OF this supreme
age. And ii seems to me that no happier
mblem Of Shakspeare's genius in his nj a
place could have been chosen than
his memorial fountain. I b we
hall never be content with that little we
now ofShakapeare's personal history, yet
70 can see him in his home life here O man
1 genial manners and persuasive speech,
I~nassuming and serene, and perhaps un-
o~nscious that he had created in the world
4 letters as great q marvel as his contem-
'orary Galileo's discovery in the world Of
Sir Francis Cunlife Owen was the
lext speaker. He made reference to
IGr. Child as q personal friend and
nan whose generous nature and many
inc qualities we're as well known IN
England as in his own country The
played the s'Qveen's Anthem -
Hail Columbia and three cheers
'or the queen. the president and Min
Ister Phelps, and a round OF accIama-
lions Tor Ma. Childs, concluded the
outdoor proceedings.
BANQgETTED.
The guests and thecorporation ware